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a friend brought me a few of the plants, which he had found dur- 

 ing a tramp through woods in the town of Cornwall. And later 

 another colony was found perhaps a half mile from the last. A 

 more thorough search of Western Connecticut probably would 

 reveal other localities for this species. 



When first discovered (early in June), neither fruit nor buds 

 could be found ; but when the Sharon station was visited in Au- 

 gust there was an abundance of buds. Some of these had aborted ; 

 others, which were quite large and somewhat longer, when ex- 

 amined with a lens, seemed to be normal and only a few weeks 

 from maturity; but the greatest number were in the form of 

 little black knobs at the ends of the stems. Apparently in this 

 undeveloped state most of the fruit buds pass the winter, matur- 

 ing in very early spring. But I am convinced that this species 

 does mature some of its fruit in late summer or early fall in 

 Southern New England. Perhaps this will account for the dis- 

 agreement regarding the time of fruiting of Scirpoides. Mr. 

 Grout has found that in Northern Vermont the fruit matures in 

 the spring soon after the last snow disappears. Gray's Manual 

 has it : "Fruiting in summer." My experience indicates that 

 both are right. 



E. scirpoides seems to favor moist, thickly wooded hillsides 

 for its place of abode, although Mr. Grout found it in a cold, 

 boggy meadow. The place where first I saw this plant is a steep 

 hillside thickly grown up to hemlock and white pine. Under- 

 neath the little Taxus or Ground Hemlock grows in abundance 

 and Streptopus roseus or twisted stalks the showy orchis, red 

 trillium and the round-leaved violet (V. routundifolia) , are its 

 companions. Here the bulbiferous bladder fern makes most 

 luxuriant growths, forming beautiful tangles over the small 

 boulders and fallen trees. The little oak fern (Phegoptcris 

 Dryopteris) also is abundant in this wood. 



The first station found in Cornwall is of the same general 

 character, though not so rich in vegetation. The second place is 

 not so deeply shaded and is drier. The plant was found to be 

 most freely budded in the dampest place, which would seem to 

 indicate that an abundance of moisture is favorable to the fruit- 

 ing. 



